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Urban Hazard Mitigation : Increasing Human Security Through Re-Assessing The Steps Toward Livable Communities
White Papers These scenarios and others provide strong testimony that the urban environment presents a unique set of circumstances, creating a distinct subset of the issues surrounding hazard mitigation generally.
[January 24, 2005, 23:00]
Bank Bailouts: Moral Hazard Vs. Value Effect
White Papers This paper shows that Central bank, by announcing and committing ex-ante to a bailout policy that is contingent on the realization of certain states of nature(for example on the occurrence of an adverse macroeconomic shock), creates a risk...
[September 18, 2003, 0:00]
The Idaho State Hazard Mitigation Plan 2004
White Papers The Idaho State Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan (the Plan) has been prepared by the Idaho Bureau of Homeland Security (BHS) (formerly Bureau of Disaster Services [BDS]) to reduce disaster assistance costs and preserve disaster assistance...
[April 30, 2008, 0:00]
Co-Ordination Failure, Moral Hazard And Sovereign Bankruptcy Procedures
White Papers This paper studies a model of sovereign debt crisis that combines problems of creditor coordination and debtor moral hazard. In the face of sovereign default, the need to give appropriate incentives to the debtor leads to excessive 'rollover...
[May 25, 2005, 0:00]
Global Moral Hazard, Capital Account Liberalization And The Overlending Syndrome
White Papers The removal of government guarantees in borrowing countries does not eliminate the moral hazard problem posed by the existence of deposit guarantees in lender countries. The paper shows that, after restrictions on international capital flows are...
[September 18, 2003, 0:00]
Windows Admin 'feature' Poses Latest Hazard
Talkback In case you happen to use the messenger service for what it's supposed to be used for, disabling it naturally is a problem. But unless the spammer is inside your own network, simply blocking ports 137, 138, and 139 from the outside world is all...
[August 21, 2003, 14:20]
Windows Admin 'feature' Poses Latest Hazard
Talkback The bloated virus magnet with the initials MS strikes again. Is there no end to the new holes that will require new patches? Has Microshaft left all these weak spots so they can browse our system in search of unregistered software?
[September 25, 2003, 14:33]
Windows Admin 'feature' Poses Latest Hazard
Talkback Many thanks for your simple solution and instructions how to turn messenger off and stop the enormous amount of messages I receive on my home computer. I searched the Microsoft site by keyword and was not able to find any mention or advice on how...
[August 21, 2003, 1:46]
Windows Admin 'feature' Poses Latest Hazard
Talkback While I'm concerned about the security issues, I frequently run Windows and MSN messengers side by side. This allows me to 'appear offline" to a large group of contacts while remaining available to a select few, and still see when contacts come...
[March 26, 2004, 12:24]
Windows Admin 'feature' Poses Latest Hazard
Talkback I agree - pop up messages like this are becoming a real pain. I use NTL Broadband and if I leave the service on I get approximately 3 per hour. But there is good news.if any of them are adverts for premium rate number in the UK, you can note the...
[August 20, 2003, 16:39]
Windows Admin 'feature' Poses Latest Hazard
Talkback This is a bit of a stretch, as the NET SEND command would have to be locally executed in order to blindly send a pop-up message box to all users in the machine's domain. Otherwise the initiator would need to know specifics such as network usernames...
[August 22, 2003, 14:32]
Moral Hazard And US Stock Market: Is There A 'Greenspan Put'?
White Papers The risk premium in the US stock market has fallen far below its historic level, which Shiller attributes to a bubble driven by psychological factors. As an alternative explanation, this paper points out that the observed risk premium may be...
[May 25, 2005, 0:00]
Windows Admin 'feature' Poses Latest Hazard
News Security experts are warning users to switch off a Windows messaging feature that has been taken over by spammers and could now pose the latest security threat for Windows users. The feature, known as the messenger service, was originally designed...
[August 20, 2003, 15:05]
Meteorological And Atmospheric Real-Time Safety Support (MARSS)
White Papers Sensor information from weather and chemical detectors can be integrated into a single application environment for chemical hazard predictions and continuous hazard monitoring. MARSS integrates weather products from national and local data.
[January 12, 2005, 23:00]
Predicting Customer Value
White Papers Predicting customer value involves modeling the churn hazard as a function of tenure and other customer attributes. The mean, restricted mean, and median lifetime value are computed by scoring future time intervals with the hazard model.
[January 30, 2007, 23:00]
Developers 'should Be Accountable' For Security Holes
Talkback Electric problem (fire/security hazard)? Plumbing (flooding/security hazard)? Poor bricks supplied by supplier (framework/security hazard)? [rant type="trolling back at the article's antagonist"] I agree!
[May 23, 2006, 19:01]
Guy Kewney's Diary
News First amongst these awkward truths is "the hazard of using the sidewalk" as they say in the US. It's an obvious, accepted hazard of putting information on the Web. See, I live by copyright. If everybody on the planet can re-broadcast my words, then...
[June 14, 1997, 8:00]
Dell Recalls 38,000 Power Adaptors
News Dell on Thursday began offering customers who purchased the adapter an update kit that includes a replacement cord and device that creates a special keyway that prevents other cords from being used, thus eliminating the potential shock hazard, a...
[July 2, 2004, 8:55]
Toshiba Claims Floppy "bug" Unlikely, But Posts Patch
News We have to acknowledge that the American law is quite different to English law, but even so, we have prepared a solution that will rectify the theoretical hazard. Are you at all worried by the news of a "theoretical hazard"?
[November 2, 1999, 11:00]
Lessons To Be Learnt From Indian Quake
News Today, research is concerned with minimising the risk associated with earthquakes by assessing the combination of seismic hazard and the vulnerability of a given area. Efforts will, instead, be channelled into hazard mitigation.
[January 30, 2001, 12:51]
